Directions: Read the passage below. Then answer questions about errors in the passage.
The university library 1) open every day. Students go to the library early in the morning and 2) late at night some students 3) work during library all night! The lights are always on. There is a coffee shop 4) near to library. You can’t take coffee 5) go into the library, but you can 6) take book into the coffee shop. The library workers 7) always very busy. The students are always 8) studdying. The library and the coffee shop are busy places!
Which of the following synonyms best replaces "crude" as it is used in the following passage?
"When prospectors found a promising spot, they staked a claim by placing posts at each corner, one with their name and date on it. The prospector then had three days to go to town and file a legal claim. Because the claims were usually measured by crude means, disagreements over exact boundaries were common." (Meissner)
Which of the following inferences is most strongly supported by the following passage (paragraph 2)?
"Stanley Pearce described the scene this way: 'Thousands of people in the public square watched the weather-beaten and hardy adventurers stagger into the express office with sacks of gold, gold in blankets, in oil cans, and even in moccasins.'" (Meissner)
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the following passage?
"Firemen, doctors, lawyers, ministers—and even the mayor of Seattle—quit their jobs and joined the rush."(Meissner)
Game of Claim Selling
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We have received vague rumors about the expected rush here in the spring and we all wonder whether there will be such an enormous crowd as reported. What under the sun they will do is more than any of us can tell. Everything in the country is staked and there certainly won’t be employment for all hands, as there is not enough for those here already. Men are busily engaged on schemes to fleece the unsuspecting Cheecakos out of their tenderfoot money, and I am afraid many of them will work. Perhaps the name Cheecako is not understood by some in Denver, but it is the Saguache name for greenhorn, or newcomer. We “old-timers” are called “sour doughs,” as it is supposed to be part of our education to know how to make sour dough bread.
Which of the following selections best expresses the narrator’s fears in the paired passage?
Which selection from the previous passage most strongly supports the answer to the above question?
What can we best infer about the narrator of the section titled “Game of Claim Selling”?
Which of the following best supports the answer to the previous question?